The future of 2 weeks ago!
When you add it up, you'll find government makes up more than 40% of the economy. Spending 40% of our GDP to govern ourselves is insanity!
Wisconsin's Missing Dems Milk Carton
Posted on 02/23/2011 4:17:52 AM PST by Kaslin
First lady Michelle Obama said, "Let's Move!" Who knew Democratic politicians in Wisconsin and Indiana would take her literally?
Faced with stifling debt, bloated pensions and intractable government unions, liberal Midwestern legislators have fled those states -- paralyzing Republican fiscal reform efforts. Like Monty Python's Brave Sir Robin and his band of quivering knights, these elected officials have only one plan when confronted with political hardship or economic peril: Run away, run away, run away.
Scores of Fleebagger Democrats are now in hiding in neighboring Illinois, the nation's sanctuary for political crooks and corruptocrats. Soon, area hotels will be announcing a special discount rate for card-carrying FleePAC winter convention registrants. Question: Will the White House count the economic stimulus from the mass Democratic exodus to Illinois as jobs "saved" or "created"? More important question: How much are taxpayers being charged for these obstructionist vacations?
Voters have spoken: In Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio and across the heartland, they put Republican adults in charge of cleaning up profligate Democrat-engineered messes. Instead of defending their same old tax-hiking, union-protecting, spending-addicted ways, Democrats are crossing their state borders into big government sanctuary zones -- screaming "la, la, la, we can't hear you" all the way.
Wisconsin Democrats warned that their delinquent members -- evading state troopers and literally phoning it in -- could be gone "for weeks" to prevent a quorum on GOP Gov. Scott Walker's modest plan to increase public union workers' health insurance and pension contributions, end the compulsory union dues racket and rein in collective bargaining powers run amok.
Big Labor insists its intransigence isn't about money, but about "rights." But the dispute is about nothing but money and power -- the union's power to dictate and limit its members' health insurance choices to a lucrative union-run plan, for example, which adds nearly $70 million in unnecessary taxpayer costs.
On Tuesday, only three of 40 House Democrats in Indiana showed up for legislative debate on a similar bill to end forced unionism and join 22 other "right to work" states. Hoosier media reported that some of the fugitive pols may be headed to Kentucky in addition to President Obama's old political stomping grounds.
The White House and Beltway Democrats have paved the way for subverting deliberative democracy, of course. If only Republicans in Wisconsin and Indiana had followed the Obama/Pelosi/Reid model and rammed their behind-closed-doors-crafted legislative agenda through in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend, the Fleebaggers wouldn't be on the lam today. But GOP legislators just don't roll that way. It's Democrats who cut and run -- abroad in wartime and at home in crisis.
Almost eight years ago, more than 50 Texas Democratic state lawmakers holed up in Oklahoma and New Mexico for weeks to stymie a vote on Republican-sponsored redistricting plans they opposed. Over the past week, it was thousands of public school teachers in Wisconsin who faked illness and boycotted their classrooms. And it's union henchmen calling out loud for statewide strikes to bring Republican reformers to their knees.
The Party of Truancy has become a laughingstock -- and Americans aren't waiting for left-wing late-night comedians to bring down the hammer of well-earned mockery. The Internet has lit up over the past week with "Wanted" posters and all-points-bulletin alerts for missing Democrats.
Blogger John Hayward of the conservative Human Events newspaper joked that "the next issue of National Geographic will track the migratory patterns of fugitive Democrats across the great plains." Seton Motley of the Washington, D.C.-based Media Research Center weighed in: "First, Wisconsin. Now, Indiana. When we said 'runaway government,' it was a complaint -- not a suggestion." Comedian Stephen Kruiser snickered that OFA -- the Democrats' political organizing arm, Organizing for America -- now stands for "Organizing Fleeing Americans."
Note: Many of the loudest Washington and Hollywood critics of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's decision to resign from office in 2009 are themselves now AWOL on the Wisconsin and Indiana AWOL-ians. Who's all for mocking "quitters" now? Anyone?
One mortified Wisconsin taxpayer speaks for many. "As the daughter of former Wisconsin Senate Minority Floor Leader William R. Moser (D-Milwaukee, Dist. 6)," Mary Magdalen Moser told me, she's humiliated by the "flee-bagging" politicians. "I am ashamed of the actions taken by the minority party to subvert our system of government by boycotting its legitimate processes. Anarchy is undemocratic, and I know that my Dad is spinning in his grave right now. ... I do not support refusing to participate, because that will not solve any of the issues facing our state."
Remember the 2008 Democratic Party chant: "Fired up! Ready to go!" Well, there's a new Democratic Party motto in town: "Ready to go? OK, then, let's blow this pop stand!" It's difficult to see how Obama and his absconder allies can "win the future" when they're stampeding over each other to escape the present.
The future of 2 weeks ago!
When you add it up, you'll find government makes up more than 40% of the economy. Spending 40% of our GDP to govern ourselves is insanity!
Wisconsin's Missing Dems Milk Carton
The Democrats are bent on the destruction of this country and the establishment of a One World Government under their control! From their actions, what other conclusion can you draw? Are the uprising in the Mid East, the unsustainable government spending here and abroad, their opposition to closing our borders and now the wide spread demonstrations against corrective action, simply coincidence?
Looking at Obama’s background, his running mates, politically and socially, and the groups allied with him, including those who are backed by George Soros and his Open Society Institute, and their stated goals of one world government, it is laid out for all to see.
Keep fighting America! We are not done yet!
I have been watching the many shows on the Military History Channel about WWII. It would be a shame to let all those men and women who died, military and civilian, in that and the following wars, to have died in vain, their bravery and greater than human feats taken for naught, while the last great hope for mankind, America, wilts under the burden of lies, deceit and greed in its own house.
The table is set. The Left is on the move. They intend this to be their victory dance. No more slow, deliberate, one-step-at-a-time strategy. The Tea Party and the 2010 elections woke them up. They realize we have finally been tweaked enough to rise up against them. Be ready! Your money may soon be worthless. Gasoline may soon become too expensive to buy, making mobility difficult. Prepare. Coordinate with fellow conservatives and freedom fighters. This will not stand!
I heard this morning that Republicans in the Wisconsin legislature (the only ones left in the chambers) plan to bring up a bill requiring photo ID at the polling place. Makes perfect sense, dont’cha think? They have the votes to pass it and many more popularly conservative bills as well. The runaway Dems are finally going to be forced to make a choice.
What a bunch of sore losers the state house Democrats have become. Someone needs to revived the old Sore Loserman sign design but use the word fleebagger instead. 
Yeah - Flee Party! My new catchphrase to describe WI dems!
FLEEBAGGERS!!!! Brilliant!!
Fleebags, fleebaggers...
And just like that, a new word is added to the American vernacular...
I’m getting the impression, as well, that “this is it”.
Well done, Michelle!!!
Leftists using government shutdown as a tactic again.
Nothing new, Obama is threatening to close down the federal governement as well. But it should be clearer than in 1995 of who is shutting it down.
This demonstration in WI and IA should make it clear to anyone that it is the leftists who are trying to stop progress.
This is such a clever phrase, it has to make it into common usage.... obviously with a lot of help such as ours. I wonder if Rush will use the phrase today....we should place odds on whether he does or not.
“Note: Many of the loudest Washington and Hollywood critics of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s decision to resign from office in 2009 are themselves now AWOL on the Wisconsin and Indiana AWOL-ians. Who’s all for mocking “quitters” now? Anyone?”
I’m positive Rush, Beck and Hannity or members of their staff peruse FR.
I know they pay attention to Michelle.
When responsible adult supervision steps in, Democrats switch from "tax and spend" to "cut and run." What do you expect from disordered minds?
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